A bit about me....

My Name Is Charlie And I Study A Level Media Studies, This Blog Will Be Used To Document Our Progress In Making Our 2 Minute Film Introduction..

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Behind The Scenes Photos.

Just a View photos showing what things looked like on the opposite side of the camera..



Here we see Aymen positioning danny before shooting the particular scene, in Aymen's hand you may see on of the two cameras we used on location. We used this camera in particular just for the sound because it had the superior mic.
Here we are shooting one of the opening sequences where the character "Danny" the victim is seen to be running away form something or someone through a rural English field.
This is the car that we used for the Hitmans transport and the Vehicle   used to hit danny. As you can see Oscar is inside at this point filming some of the interior car shots prior to danny being hit.
This is danny after being hit by the Hitmans car, we sourced a local shop that sold fake blood that looked extremely realistic. We weren't really sure how it was going to turn out, but we were extremely happy with the overall result and realistic outcome we came out with.

Location Photos.


 We traveled to Old Windsor to film, we found this Private field which was perfect for our opening running sequence, we proceeded to ask permission of the land owner so that we could use his field.The lane that was near the field was also the ideal location for filming all our car scenes it was remote and quite and the perfect back road. We had very little traffic passing through giving us large amounts of time to perfect the final shots.




The way the road meandered round was perfect for staging danny being purposely hit by the Hitman. There was also the perfect amount of road available for us so that we could shoot plenty of interior and exterior shots.








Initial Film Ideas

At first we filmed a draft intro based on a few ideas that we all had. after filming it and editing it we decided that we were not happy how it turned out, and we as we were all very unsure of the plot itself. The plot consisted of this one character a mysterious man who wakes up in the morning loading his gun that is placed carefully beside his bed. We thought that the gun would make the audience ask questions. For example Why has he got a gun? What does he do for a living? etc etc.  The man then continues to go into his kitchen and fill up a glass of water and then he mysteriously collapses. As we finished filming at started to think about the whole idea we came to the conclusion that perhaps it wasn't thought out well enough. We also felt like we were capable of a lot more.


I could not upload the official script document so i just re wrote it for the benefit of the blog..





Opening Sequence:
Oscar Wakes Up in his bed its seems like every other day.
Oscar spins out of bed and puts his slippers on
He then reaches over to his bedside table and picks up his gun.
He loads it and secures it in the back of his trousers.
As he walks over to a large window towards the right and side of the room
he lifts a portion of the blind up to look outside in a discreet manner 

Main Sequence: 


Oscar walks though into his kitchen slight dazed and still asleep
 He walks to a cupboard situated on the right hand side of the room
he reaches in and picks out a regular glass
Oscar walks calmly over to the kitchen sink and fills his glass up
his expression changes to one of illness and pain 
he collapses to the floor violently 
A strange ghost like figure starts to rip itself from oscars corpse 
It stands there starring.
END

Friday, 18 March 2011

Shooting Schedule for Initial idea

We decided that we wanted to get all filming done within one day. 
we finished school early on wednesday and made our way straight to the previously sourced location in which we had planned to film at. We spent about 4-5 hours on shooting on the day. and in total have put at least 2-3 hours into the final project. The reason we didn't spend a great deal of time on editing in this case, was because going into the production we all knew that initially this was just to test the water, to see how things panned out.

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Our First Film Idea





Although this film was still done to a very high quality and would gain us a fairly good mark. However we went into this wanting better than just a fairly good mark, we wanted something that could gains us a perfect mark at A Level. So coming out the back of this project we got feed back from out teaches and knew what we had to redo or re film completely. we learnt from that and came back with out with a far better intro